Method of performing NxM Discrete Cosine Transform

ABSTRACT

A fast and precise method to perform inverse and forward Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) is disclosed. The method may be used for implementing a two-dimensional (2D) inverse or forward DCT that operates on an N×M coefficient block and has a higher accuracy than is specified by the IEEE 1180-1990 standard (for the inverse operation). The disclosed method includes the following stages: based on integer operations, a fixed point one dimensional (1D) DCT may be performed on each row of an input coefficient block, an integer-to-single-precision floating point result conversion may be performed, and a single precision floating point 1D DCT may be performed on each column of the coefficient block resulting from the previous stages.

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BACKGROUND

1. Field

The present invention relates generally to video processing and, more specifically, to a Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) performed on an N×M coefficient block in a system implementing a block-based, Moving Pictures Expert Group (MPEG)-like video coding standard.

2. Description

Many video coding standards, such as those developed by MPEG, are based on sample-to-frequency domain transitions and employ two-dimensional (2D) forward and inverse Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) for converting raster data to frequency coefficient blocks, and for converting the compressed coefficient blocks back to raster data, respectively. The 2D DCT operation is defined by MPEG standards (e.g., ISO/IEC 13818-2, MPEG-2 coding standard: Video, ISO/IEC 14496-2, MPEG-4 coding standard, Visual) as a transformation of an 8×8 coefficient block and appears to be one the most time-consuming parts of a compressed video processing pipeline.

Some video coding standards (e.g., MPEG-4) impose additional restrictions on DCT precision compared to one defined by, for example, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 1180-1990 standard (“IEEE Standard Specifications for the Implementation of 8×8 Inverse Discrete Cosine Transform”, 1997). Thus, the MPEG-4 standard treats the aforementioned standard requirements as necessary but not sufficient: “where arithmetic precision is not specified, such as in the calculation of the inverse DCT, the precision shall be sufficient so that significant errors do not occur in the final integer values.” For some coded video sequences, satisfactory results can be achieved if the DCT operation is implemented using single precision floating point arithmetic. At the same time, floating point operations are somewhat slower than integer instructions involved in fixed point calculations widely used in video processing systems to compute an 8×8 DCT.

Therefore, a need exists for the capability to provide high speed DCT execution while preserving the accuracy of single precision floating point operations.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

The features and advantages of the present invention will become apparent from the following detailed description of the present invention in which:

FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating an 8×8 coefficient block, decomposition of the block into rows, row-based application of a DCT and conversion operations, and an intermediate floating point coefficient block according to an embodiment of the present invention; and

FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating column-based application of a DCT to floating point coefficients, floating point to integer conversion, and a resulting integer coefficient block according to an embodiment of the present invention.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION

An embodiment of the present invention is a method of implementing two-dimensional N×M Inverse and Forward Discrete Cosine Transform (hereinafter DCT denotes both the inverse and forward operations). The method for the inverse operation has a higher accuracy than is defined by the IEEE 1180-1990 standard, and is designed to meet additional accuracy restrictions imposed by other standards, such as MPEG-4, for example. The forward DCT accuracy of embodiments of the present invention may be higher than can be achieved using integer fixed point methods, and unlike the prior art, scales with the absolute values of input coefficients.

Embodiments of the present invention comprise several stages: a fixed point 1D DCT may be performed on each row of an input coefficient block (this stage employs integer operations), integer-to-single-precision floating point conversion of the transformed row coefficients, and single precision floating point 1D DCT may be performed on each column of the coefficient block resulting from the previous stages.

One embodiment of the present invention uses 32-bit integer variables to store intermediate results and preserve computational accuracy for 8-bit and 12-bit integer coefficients. The embodiment employs integer operations, thus gaining additional performance compared to fully floating point methods. By using a 2D DCT decomposed into row and column 1D DCT processing stages, embodiments facilitate Single Instruction Multiple Data (SIMD)-based implementations.

Therefore, an embodiment of the present invention is a method of implementing 2D Inverse and Forward Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) performed on an N×M coefficient block, where N and M are natural numbers. In one embodiment, N and M may be 8, although the invention is not limited in this respect. The method is intended to achieve higher performance than can be achieved with floating point computations, and to obtain more accurate results than integer fixed point methods are capable of. Since most modern video coding standards operate on quantized integer data, the input and output data of the disclosed DCT method are also integer.

Reference in the specification to “one embodiment” or “an embodiment” of the present invention means that a particular feature, structure or characteristic described in connection with the embodiment is included in at least one embodiment of the present invention. Thus, the appearances of the phrase “in one embodiment” appearing in various places throughout the specification are not necessarily all referring to the same embodiment.

To meet the aforementioned processing goals, the 2D N×M DCT operation: (a) may be divided into N row N-point DCT and M column M-point DCT operations that can be efficiently implemented using SIMD operations; (b) employs integer fixed point computations for higher performance; (c) converts intermediate results to a single precision floating point form; and (d) uses floating point calculations to obtain final DCT values. The forward 2D DCT may be defined as follows: $f_{nm} = {c_{n}c_{m}{\sum\limits_{i = 0}^{N - 1}\;{\sum\limits_{j = 0}^{M - 1}\;{\cos\frac{\pi\;{n\left( {{2i} + 1} \right)}}{2N}\cos\frac{\pi\;{m\left( {{2j} + 1} \right)}}{2M}x_{ij},}}}}$ the inverse 2D DCT formula is: $x_{ij} = {\sum\limits_{n = 0}^{N - 1}\;{\sum\limits_{m = 0}^{M - 1}\;{\cos\frac{\pi\;{n\left( {{2i} + 1} \right)}}{2N}\cos\frac{\pi\;{m\left( {{2j} + 1} \right)}}{2M}c_{n}c_{m}f_{nm},}}}$ where $c_{0} = {{\frac{1}{\sqrt{K}},\mspace{11mu} c_{n}} = \sqrt{\frac{2}{K}}}$ for n=1, 2, . . . K−1; K denoted DCT length; f_(nm) denotes frequency domain coefficients; and x_(ij) denotes spatial domain coefficients. A N×M 2D DCT operation is equivalent to N-point DCT applied to rows and M-point DCT applied to columns of an input matrix. The forward N-point DCT is defined as follows: $y_{n} = {c_{n}{\sum\limits_{k = 0}^{N - 1}\;{\cos\frac{\pi\;{n\left( {{2k} + 1} \right)}}{2N}x_{k},}}}$ and the inverse operation is: $x_{k} = {\sum\limits_{n = 0}^{N - 1}\;{\cos\frac{\pi\;{n\left( {{2k} + 1} \right)}}{2N}c_{n}y_{n},}}$ where $c_{0} = {{\frac{1}{\sqrt{N}},\mspace{11mu} c_{n}} = \sqrt{\frac{2}{N}}}$ for n=1, 2, . . . N−1; y_(n) denotes frequency domain coefficients; and x_(k) denotes spatial domain coefficients. The matrix form of the forward DCT is: y=C×x The inverse DCT formula can be written as: y=C^(T)×x FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating an 8×8 coefficient block, decomposition of the block into rows, row-based application of DCT and conversion operations, and an intermediate floating-point coefficient block. One embodiment of the present invention operates on an 8×8 integer coefficient block, although other choices for N and M may also be used.

First, a fixed point integer DCT may be applied to rows. The row DCT is a series of eight coefficients, and for an efficient SIMD DCT implementation, an instruction that supports inter-element dependencies is needed (e.g., the pmaddwd MMX™/SSE™ instructions available in microprocessors from Intel Corporation). The row DCT method does not necessarily need to have the minimal number of multiplications. So, one possible DCT matrix factorization is defined below: C=P×M×A, where C is a forward DCT operator, and P, M, and A are the following matrices: $A = \begin{pmatrix} 1 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 1 \\ 0 & 1 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 1 & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & 1 & 0 & 0 & 1 & 0 & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & 0 & 1 & 1 & 0 & 0 & 0 \\ 1 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & {- 1} \\ 0 & 1 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & {- 1} & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & 1 & 0 & 0 & {- 1} & 0 & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & 0 & 1 & {- 1} & 0 & 0 & 0 \end{pmatrix}$ $M = \begin{pmatrix} {c(4)} & {c(4)} & {c(4)} & {c(4)} & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 \\ {c(2)} & {c(6)} & {- {c(6)}} & {- {c(2)}} & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 \\ {c(4)} & {- {c(4)}} & {- {c(4)}} & {c(4)} & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 \\ {c(6)} & {- {c(2)}} & {c(2)} & {- {c(6)}} & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & {c(1)} & {c(3)} & {c(5)} & {c(7)} \\ 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & {c(3)} & {- {c(7)}} & {- {c(1)}} & {- {c(5)}} \\ 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & {c(5)} & {- {c(1)}} & {c(7)} & {c(3)} \\ 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & {c(7)} & {- {c(5)}} & {c(3)} & {- {c(1)}} \end{pmatrix}$ $P = \begin{pmatrix} 1 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 1 & 0 & 0 & 0 \\ 0 & 1 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 1 & 0 & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & 1 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 1 & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & 0 & 1 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 1 \end{pmatrix}$ ${{Where}\mspace{14mu}{c(n)}} = {\cos{\frac{\pi\; n}{16}\;.}}$

The inverse DCT may be determined by transposing the forward DCT matrix (C).

The results of integer fixed point row DCT may then be converted to single precision floating point values. The conversion operation uses SIMD instructions to convert several elements simultaneously. The row DCT and conversion applied to all rows results in a single precision floating point coefficient block. This block may be viewed as input data for the next, column DCT stage.

FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating column-based application of DCT to floating point coefficients, floating point to integer conversion, and a resulting integer coefficient block. At this stage, the DCT operation may be applied to columns of the aforementioned floating point coefficient block. In order to utilize SIMD resources, the elements of several adjacent columns may be stored in one SIMD-register and processed simultaneously, that means the column DCT is based on a data parallelization method, and hence the number of operations to compute the column DCT may be minimized. Algorithms based on Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) may best be used to perform this stage.

As proposed in “A Fast DCT-SQ Scheme for Images”, by Y. Arai, T. Agui, and M. Nakajima, Trans. of IEICE, vol. E-71, no. 11, pp. 1095–1097, Nov. 1988, an inverse 8-point DCT operation may be defined as follows: ${{\cos\frac{\pi\; n}{16}c_{n}{S_{8}(n)}} = {{Re}\left\{ {F_{16}(n)} \right\},}}\;$ where $c_{0} = {{\frac{\sqrt{2}}{2},\mspace{11mu} c_{n}} = \frac{1}{2}}$ for n=1, 2, . . . 7; S₈(n) denotes transformed 8-point DCT coefficients; and F₁₆ (n) denotes 16-point Discrete Fourier Transform. Multiplying each column element by $\cos\frac{\pi\; n}{16}c_{n}$ is equivalent to multiplying all elements of each row by ${\cos\;\frac{\pi\; k}{16}c_{k}},$ where k denotes a row index, and may be pre-calculated during row DCT matrix initialization, and so does not cause computational overhead.

The inverse DFT matrix may be factored: L=B1×M×A1×A2×A3, with: ${B1} = \begin{pmatrix} 1 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 1 & 1 & 1 \\ 0 & 0 & 1 & 1 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & {- 1} & {- 1} & 0 & 1 \\ 0 & 1 & 0 & 0 & {0} & {0} & 0 & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & {0} & 0 & 1 & {- 1} & 0 & 1 \\ 0 & 0 & {- 1} & 1 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 1 & {- 1} & 1 \end{pmatrix}$ $M = \begin{pmatrix} 1 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 \\ 0 & 1 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & {C4} & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & 0 & 1 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & {- {C2}} & 0 & {- {C6}} & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & {C4} & 0 & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & {- {C6}} & 0 & {C2} & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 1 \end{pmatrix}$ ${A1} = \begin{pmatrix} 0 & {1} & 0 & 1 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 \\ 0 & {- 1} & 0 & 1 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & {1} & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & {- 1} & 0 & 0 & 0 & 1 & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 1 & 0 & 0 \\ {- 1} & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 \\ 1 & 0 & 0 & 0 & {1} & 0 & 0 & 0 \\ {- 1} & 0 & 0 & 0 & {- 1} & 0 & 0 & 1 \end{pmatrix}$ ${A2} = \begin{pmatrix} 0 & 1 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & {- 1} \\ 0 & 0 & 0 & 1 & 0 & 1 & 0 & {0} \\ 0 & 0 & 0 & 1 & 0 & {- 1} & 0 & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 1 & {0} & 1 & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & 1 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & {0} & 1 \\ 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 1 & 0 & {- 1} & 0 \\ 1 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 \end{pmatrix}$ ${A3} = \begin{pmatrix} 1 & 0 & {0} & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & {- 1} \\ 0 & 0 & {- 1} & 0 & 0 & 1 & 0 & {0} \\ 0 & 1 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & {- 1} & 0 \\ 0 & 1 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & {1} & 0 \\ 1 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 1 \\ 0 & 0 & 1 & 0 & 0 & 1 & 0 & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & 0 & {1} & 1 & 0 & 0 & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & 0 & {- 1} & 1 & 0 & 0 & 0 \end{pmatrix}$ Where ${{C2} = {2\cos\;\frac{\pi}{8}}};$ C4=√{square root over (2)}; ${C6} = {2\sin\;{\frac{\pi}{8}.}}$

After the inverse DCT operation is performed according to the above factorization, the resulting coefficients may be converted to integer values.

One non-limiting example embodiment of the present invention is listed in Appendix A. IEEE 1180-1990 compliance test results are listed in Appendix B. Measurements of DCT performance as optimized for a Pentium®4 processor commercially available from Intel Corporation are shown in Appendix C. One skilled in the art will recognize that the accuracy of the present invention scales with input coefficients, unlike the accuracy of any existing integer fixed point implementations.

The techniques described herein are not limited to any particular hardware or software configuration; they may find applicability in any computing or processing environment. The techniques may be implemented in hardware, software, or a combination of the two. The techniques may be implemented in programs executing on programmable machines such as mobile or stationary computers, personal digital assistants, set top boxes, cellular telephones and pagers, and other electronic devices, that each include a processor, a storage medium readable by the processor (including volatile and non-volatile memory and/or storage elements), at least one input device, and one or more output devices. Program code is applied to the data entered using the input device to perform the functions described and to generate output information. The output information may be applied to one or more output devices. One of ordinary skill in the art may appreciate that the invention can be practiced with various computer system configurations, including multiprocessor systems, minicomputers, mainframe computers, handheld computers, and the like. The invention can also be practiced in distributed computing environments where tasks may be performed by remote processing devices that are linked through a communications network.

Each program may be implemented in a high level procedural or object oriented programming language to communicate with a processing system. However, programs may be implemented in assembly or machine language, if desired. In any case, the language may be compiled or interpreted.

Program instructions may be used to cause a general-purpose or special-purpose processing system that is programmed with the instructions to perform the operations described herein. Alternatively, the operations may be performed by specific hardware components that contain hardwired logic for performing the operations, or by any combination of programmed computer components and custom hardware components. The methods described herein may be provided as a computer program product that may include a machine readable medium having stored thereon instructions that may be used to program a processing system or other electronic device to perform the methods. The term “machine readable medium” used herein shall include any medium that is capable of storing or encoding a sequence of instructions for execution by the machine and that cause the machine to perform any one of the methods described herein. The term “machine readable medium” shall accordingly include, but not be limited to, solid-state memories, optical and magnetic disks, and a carrier wave that encodes a data signal. Furthermore, it is common in the art to speak of software, in one form or another (e.g., program, procedure, process, application, module, logic, and so on) as taking an action or causing a result. Such expressions are merely a shorthand way of stating the execution of the software by a processing system cause the processor to perform an action or produce a result.

While this invention has been described with reference to illustrative embodiments, this description is not intended to be construed in a limiting sense. Various modifications of the illustrative embodiments, as well as other embodiments of the invention, which are apparent to persons skilled in the art to which the invention pertains are deemed to lie within the spirit and scope of the invention.

APPENDIX A For inverse 8×8 DCT see: idct8×8ssfs.asm For forward 8×8 DCT see: fdct8×8ssfs.asm The files require Microsoft ® Macro Assembler Compiler version 6.15 or higher. The DCT function prototypes for C + + language are: extern “C” void idct8×8ssfs(short*); extern “C” void fdct8×8ssfs(short*); ========================================================== File: fdct8×8ssfs.asm ========================================================== © 2002 Intel Corporation .686 .xmm xmmword textequ <qword> .model   FLAT tws equ esp + 4 ssetmp_store equ [tws + 0100h] ;;; ;;; ;;; short-short-float-short fdct_row2    macro   i, scales ;;; IN eax −> short 8×8 block ;;; IN i == row index ;;; IN scales −> coeffs ;;; OUT [esp +4 . . .] = float 8×8 block ;;; ;;; IN eax −> row ;;; ;;; OUT xmm5:|′3|′2|′1|′0 ;;; ;;; OUT xmm0:|′7|′6|′5|′4 ;;; ;;; OUT xmm1:|″3|″2|″1|″0 ;;; ;;; OUT xmm3:|″7|″6|″5|″4 movaps xmm0,xmmword ptr [eax + i * 10h] ;;; xmm0: |′7|′6|′5|′4|′3|′2|′1|′0 movaps xmm1,xmmword ptr [eax + i * 10h + 10h] ;;; xmm1: |″7|″6|″5|″4|″3|″2|″1|″0 pshufhw xmm0,xmm0,00011011b ;;; xmm0: |4|5|6|7|3|2|1|0 pshufhw xmm1,xmm1,00011011b ;;; xmm1: |4|5|6|7|3|2|1|0 movaps  xmm2,xmm1 movhlps xmm2,xmm0 ;;; xmm2: |″4|″5|″6|″7|′4|′5|′6|′7 movlhps xmm0,xmm1 ;;; xmm0: |″3|″2|″1|″0|′3|′2|′1|′0 movaps xmm1,xmm0 paddsw xmm0,xmm2 ;;; xmm0: |″3+4|″2+5|″1+6|″0+7|′3+4|′2+5|′1+6|′0+7 psubsw xmm1,xmm2 ;;; xmm1: |″3−4|″2−5|″1−6|″0−7|′3− 4|′2−5|′1−6|′0−7 movaps xmm3,xmm0 punpckldq   xmm0,xmm1 ;;; xmm0: |′3−4|′2−5|′3+4|′2+5|′1− 6|′0−7|′1+6|′0+7 punpckhdq   xmm3,xmm1 ;;; xmm3: |″3−4|″2−5|″3+4|″2+5|″1− 6|″0−7|″1+6|″0+7 pshufd xmm2,xmm0,01001110b ;;; xmm2: |′1−6|′0−7|′1+6|′0+7|′3− 4|′2−5|′3+4|′2+5 pshufd xmm4,xmm3,01001110b ;;; xmm4: |″1−6|″0−7|″1+6|″0+7|″3− 4|″2−5|″3+4|″2+5 movaps xmm5,xmmword ptr scales movaps xmm6,xmmword ptr scales + 10h pmaddwd xmm5,xmm0 pmaddwd xmm6,xmm2 pmaddwd xmm0,xmmword ptr scales + 20h pmaddwd xmm2,xmmword ptr scales + 30h paddd xmm5,xmm6 paddd xmm0,xmm2 movaps xmm1,xmmword ptr scales movaps xmm7,xmmword ptr scales + 10h pmaddwd xmm1,xmm3 pmaddwd xmm7,xmm4 pmaddwd xmm3,xmmword ptr scales + 20h pmaddwd xmm4,xmmword ptr scales + 30h paddd xmm1,xmm7 paddd xmm3,xmm4 cvtdq2ps xmm5,xmm5 cvtdq2ps xmm0,xmm0 movaps xmm2,xmmword ptr scale_const cvtdq2ps xmm1,xmm1 cvtdq2ps xmm3,xmm3 mulps xmm5,xmm2 mulps xmm0,xmm2 mulps xmm1,xmm2 mulps xmm3,xmm2 movaps xmmword ptr [tws + i * 20h],xmm5 movaps xmmword ptr [tws + i * 20h + 10h],xmm0 movaps xmmword ptr [tws + (i + 1) * 20h],xmm1 movaps xmmword ptr [tws + (i + 1) * 20h + 10h],xmm3 endm fdct_row macro   i, scales ;;; IN eax −> short 8×8 block ;;; IN i == row index ;;; IN scales −> coeffs ;;; OUT [esp + 4 . . .] = float 8×8 block ;;; ;;; IN eax −> row ;;; ;;; OUT xmm5:|3|2|1|0 ;;; ;;; OUT xmm3:|7|6|5|4 movaps xmm0,xmmword ptr [eax + i * 10h] ;;; xmm0: |7|6|5|4|3|2|1|0 pshufhw xmm0,xmm0,00011011b ;;; xmm0: |4|5|6|7|3|2|1|0 movhlps xmm1,xmm0 ;;; xmm1: |x|x|x|x|4|5|6|7 movaps xmm2,xmm0 psubsw xmm2,xmm1 ;;; xmm2: |x|x|x|x|3− 4|2−5|1−6|0−7 paddsw xmm0,xmm1 ;;; xmm0: |x|x|x|x|3+4|2+5|1+6|0+7 punpckldq xmm0,xmm2 ;;; xmm0: |3−4|2−5|3+4|2+5|1− 6|0−7|1+6|0+7 pshufd xmm3,xmm0,01000100b ;;; xmm3: |1−6|0−7|1+6|0+7|1− 6|0−7|1+6|0+7 pshufd xmm4,xmm0,11101110b ;;; xmm4: |3−4|2−5|3+4|2+5|3− 4|2−5|3+4|2+5 movaps xmm5,xmmword ptr scales movaps xmm6,xmmword ptr scales + 10h pmaddwd xmm5, xmm3 pmaddwd xmm6,xmm4 pmaddwd xmm3,xmmword ptr scales + 20h pmaddwd xmm4,xmmword ptr scales + 30h paddd xmm5,xmm6 paddd xmm3,xmm4 cvtdq2ps xmm5,xmm5 cvtdq2ps xmm3,xmm3 movaps xmm2,xmmword ptr scale_const mulps xmm5,xmm2 mulps xmm3,xmm2 movaps xmmword ptr [tws + i * 20h],xmm5 movaps xmmword ptr [tws + i * 20h + 10h],xmm3 endm cvt_store macro i, r, offs ;;; OUT [eax . . .] = coeff. row cvtps2dq r,r packssdw r,r if offs EQ 0 ;;; low movlps xmmword ptr [eax + i * 10h],r else movhps xmmword ptr [eax + i * 10h + 08h],r endif endm fdct_column macro offs ;;; IN tws −> float 8×8 block (esp + 4) ;;; IN eax −> dst (short 8×8 block) ;;; IN fdct_float_1Dscale ;;; OUT [eax . . .] = short 8×8 block movaps xmm3,xmmword ptr [tws + 30h * 2 + offs] movaps xmm6,xmmword ptr [tws + 40h * 2 + offs] movaps xmm4,xmm3 addps xmm3,xmm6 subps xmm4,xmm6 movaps xmm2,xmmword ptr [tws + 20h * 2 + offs] movaps xmm6,xmmword ptr [tws + 50h * 2 + offs] movaps xmm5,xmm2 addps xmm2,xmm6 subps xmm5,xmm6 movaps xmmword ptr ssetmp_store,xmm3 movaps xmm1,xmmword ptr [tws + 10h * 2 + offs] movaps xmm3,xmmword ptr [tws + 60h * 2 + offs] movaps xmm6,xmm1 addps xmm1,xmm3 subps xmm6,xmm3 movaps xmm0,xmmword ptr [tws + 00h * 2 + offs] movaps xmm3,xmmword ptr [tws + 70h * 2 + offs] movaps xmm7,xmm0 addps xmm0,xmm3 subps xmm7,xmm3 addps xmm4,xmm5 addps xmm5,xmm6 addps xmm6,xmm7 movaps xmm3,xmm4 subps xmm3,xmm6 mulps xmm3,xmmword ptr Cp0_382 mulps xmm4,xmmword ptr Cp0_541 addps xmm4,xmm3 mulps xmm6,xmmword ptr Cp1_306 addps xmm6,xmm3 mulps xmm5,xmmword ptr Cp0_707 movaps xmm3,xmm7 addps xmm7,xmm5 subps xmm3,xmm5 movaps xmm5,xmm3 addps xmm3,xmm4 subps xmm5,xmm4 movaps xmm4,xmm7 addps xmm7,xmm6 subps xmm4,xmm6 movaps xmm6,xmm0 addps xmm0,xmmword ptr ssetmp_store subps xmm6,xmmword ptr ssetmp_store movaps xmmword ptr ssetmp_store,xmm4 movaps xmm4,xmm1 addps xmm1,xmm2 subps xmm4,xmm2 movaps xmm2,xmm0 addps xmm0,xmm1 subps xmm2,xmm1 addps xmm4,xmm6 mulps xmm4,xmmword ptr Cp0_707 movaps xmm1,xmm6 addps xmm6,xmm4 subps xmm1,xmm4 ;;; 0, 7, 6, 5,   2, 3, 1, ssetmp,   [tmp == xmm4] mulps xmm0,xmmword ptr fdct_float_1Dscale + 00h mulps xmm7,xmmword ptr fdct_float_1Dscale + 10h cvt_store 0, xmm0, offs cvt_store 1, xmm7, offs mulps xmm6,xmmword ptr fdct_float_1Dscale + 20h mulps xmm5,xmmword ptr fdct_float_1Dscale + 30h cvt_store 2, xmm6, offs cvt_store 3, xmm5, offs movaps xmm4,xmmword ptr ssetmp_store mulps xmm2,xmmword ptr fdct_float_1Dscale + 40h mulps xmm3,xmmword ptr fdct_float_1Dscale + 50h cvt_store 4, xmm2, offs cvt_store 5, xmm3, offs mulps xmm1,xmmword ptr fdct_float_1Dscale + 60h mulps xmm4,xmmword ptr fdct_float_1Dscale + 70h cvt_store 6, xmm1, offs cvt_store 7, xmm4, offs endm _TEXT segment ;;; 8×8 fDCT; integer row stage, AAN float column stage, short-to-float/float- to-short conversion _fdct8×8ssfs   proc   near ;;; IN/OUT [esp + 4] −> short 8×8 block mov eax,esp sub esp,0110h     ;;; space for float 8×8 block and esp,0fffffff0h push eax mov eax, [eax + 4] ;;; eax −> short IN/OUT 8×8 block ;;; esp + 4 −> float intermediate 8×8 block fdct_row2 0, coeffs0wd fdct_row2 2, coeffs0wd fdct_row2 4, coeffs0wd fdct_row2 6, coeffs0wd if 0 fdct_row 0, coeffs0w fdct_row 1, coeffs0w fdct_row 2, coeffs0w fdct_row 3, coeffs0w fdct_row 4, coeffs0w fdct_row 5, coeffs0w fdct_row 6, coeffs0w fdct_row 7, coeffs0w endif fdct_column 00h fdct_column 10h exit: mov esp, [esp] ret _fdct8×8ssfs endp _TEXT ends _DATA segment ;;; coeffs Cp0_382 dd 4 dup(0.382683433) Cp0_541 dd 4 dup(0.541196100) Cp1_306 dd 4 dup(1.306562965) Cp0_707 dd 4 dup(0.707106781) factor equ 2.8284271247461903 fdct_float_1Dscale dd 4 dup(0.3535533905932737875);;;(0.1250000000000) * factor dd 4 dup(0.2548977895521687286);;;(0.0901199777509) -//- dd 4 dup(0.2705980500731764547);;;(0.0956708580913) dd 4 dup(0.3006724434675027041);;;(0.1063037618459) dd 4 dup(0.3535533905932737875);;;(0.1250000000000) dd 4 dup(0.4499881115681958855);;;(0.1590948225716) dd 4 dup(0.6532814824381269648);;;(0.2309698831278) dd 4 dup(1.2814577238706289522);;;(0.4530637231764) ;;; 1 / 2{circumflex over ( )}16 scale_const dd 4 dup(37800000h) ;;; 16-bit coeffs0w dw 5A82h, 5A82h, 7D8Ah, 6A6Eh, 7642h, 30FCh, 6A6Eh, 0E708h dw 5A82h, 5A82h, 471Dh, 18F9h, 0CF05h, 089BFh, 08277h, 0B8E4h dw 5A82h, 0A57Fh, 471Dh, 08277h, 30FCh, 089BFh, 18F9h, 0B8E4h dw 0A57Fh, 5A82h, 18F9h, 6A6Eh, 7642h, 0CF05h, 6A6Eh, 08277h coeffs0wd dw 5A82h, 5A82h, 7D8Ah, 6A6Eh, 0CF05h, 089BFh, 08277h, 0B8E4h dw 5A82h, 5A82h, 471Dh, 18F9h, 7642h, 30FCh, 6A6Eh, 0E708h dw 5A82h, 0A57Fh, 471Dh, 08277h, 7642h, 0CF05h, 6A6Eh, 08277h dw 0A57Fh, 5A82h, 18F9h, 6A6Eh, 30FCh, 089BFh, 18F9h, 0B8E4h _DATA ends end =========================================================== File: idct8×8ssfs.asm =========================================================== © 2002 Intel Corporation .686 .xmm xmmword textequ <qword> .model FLAT _TEXT segment tws equ esp + 4 ssetmp_store equ [tws + 0100h] ;;; ;;; ;;; short-float idct_row2 macro i, scales ;;; IN eax −> short 8×8 block ;;; IN i == row index ;;; IN scales −> modified coeffs ;;; OUT [esp + 4. . .] = float 8×8 block ;;; ;;; IN eax −> row ;;; ;;; OUT xmm0:|3|2|1|0 ;;; ;;; OUT xmm1:|7|6|5|4 movdqa xmm0,xmmword ptr [eax + i * 10h] ;;; |7|6|5|4|3|2|1|0 movaps xmm4,xmmword ptr [eax + i * 10h + 10h] pshuflw xmm0,xmm0,11011000b ;;; |7|6|5|4|3|1|2|0 pshuflw xmm4,xmm4,11011000b pshufhw xmm0,xmm0,11011000b ;;; |7|5|6|4|3|1|2|0 pshufhw xmm4,xmm4,11011000b pshufd xmm1,xmm0,10101010b ;;; xmm1: |6|4|6|4|6|4|6|4 pshufd xmm5,xmm4,10101010b pshufd xmm2,xmm0,01010101b ;;; xmm2: |3|1|3|1|3|1|3|1 pshufd xmm6,xmm4, 01010101b pshufd xmm3,xmm0,0ffh ;;; xmm3: |7|5|7|5|7|5|7|5 pshufd xmm7, xmm4, 0ffh pshufd xmm0,xmm0,00h ;;; xmm0: |2|0|2|0|2|0|2|0 pshufd xmm4,xmm4, 00h pmaddwd xmm0,xmmword ptr [scales] ;;; xmm0: |2×0|2×0|2×0|2×0 pmaddwd xmm4,xmmword ptr [scales + 40h] pmaddwd xmm1,xmmword ptr [scales + 10h] ;;; xmm1: |6×4|6×4|6×4|6×4 paddd xmm0,xmm1 ;;; xmm0: |e|e|e|e pmaddwd xmm2,xmmword ptr [scales + 20h] ;;; xmm2: |3×1|3×1|3×1|3×1 pmaddwd xmm3,xmmword ptr [scales + 30h] ;;; xmm3: |7×5|7×5|7×5|7×5 movdqa xmm1,xmm0 pmaddwd xmm5,xmmword ptr [scales + 50h] paddd xmm4,xmm5 pmaddwd xmm6,xmmword ptr [scales + 60h] paddd xmm2,xmm3 ;;; xmm2: |o|o|o|o movaps xmm5,xmm4 pmaddwd xmm7,xmmword ptr [scales + 70h] paddd xmm6,xmm7 paddd xmm0,xmm2 ;;; xmm0: |3|2|1|0 paddd xmm4,xmm6 psubd xmm1,xmm2 ;;; xmm1: |4|5|6|7 psubd xmm5,xmm6 pshufd xmm1,xmm1,00011011b ;;; xmm1: |7|6|5|4 pshufd xmm5,xmm5,00011011b movaps xmm2,xmmword ptr scale_const cvtdq2ps xmm0,xmm0 cvtdq2ps xmm1,xmm1 mulps xmm0,xmm2 cvtdq2ps xmm4,xmm4 cvtdq2ps xmm5,xmm5 mulps xmm1,xmm2 mulps xmm4,xmm2 mulps xmm5,xmm2 movaps xmmword ptr [tws + i * 20h],xmm0 movaps xmmword ptr [tws + i * 20h + 10h],xmm1 movaps xmmword ptr [tws + (i + 1) * 20h],xmm4 movaps xmmword ptr [tws + (i + 1) * 20h + 10h],xmm5 endm idct_row macro i, scales ;;; IN eax −> short 8×8 block ;;; IN i == row index ;;; IN scales −> modified coeffs ;;; OUT [esp + 4 . . .] = float 8×8 block ;;; ;;; IN eax −> row ;;; ;;; OUT xmm0:|3|2|1|0 ;;; ;;; OUT xmm1:|7|6|5|4 movdqa xmm0,xmmword ptr [eax + i * 10h] ;;; |7|6|5|4|3|2|1|0 pshuflw xmm0,xmm0,11011000b ;;; |7|6|5|4|3|1|2|0 pshufhw xmm0,xmm0,11011000b ;;; |7|5|6|4|3|1|2|0 pshufd xmm1,xmm0,10101010b ;;; xmm1: |6|4|6|4|6|4|6|4 pshufd xmm2,xmm0,01010101b ;;; xmm2: |3|1|3|1|3|1|3|1 pshufd xmm3,xmm0,0ffh ;;; xmm3: |7|5|7|5|7|5|7|5 pshufd xmm0,xmm0,00h ;;; xmm0: |2|0|2|0|2|0|2|0 pmaddwd xmm0,xmmword ptr [scales] ;;; xmm0: |2×0|2×0|2×0|2×0 pmaddwd xmm1,xmmword ptr [scales + 10h] ;;; xmm1: |6×4|6×4|6×4|6×4 paddd xmm0,xmm1 ;;; xmm0: |e|e|e|e pmaddwd xmm2,xmmword ptr [scales + 20h] ;;; xmm2: |3×1|3×1|3×1|3×1 pmaddwd xmm3,xmmword ptr [scales + 30h] ;;; xmm3: |7×5|7×5|7×5|7×5 paddd xmm2,xmm3 ;;; xmm2: |o|o|o|o movdqa xmm1,xmm0 paddd xmm0,xmm2 ;;; xmm0: |3|2|1|0 psubd xmm1,xmm2 ;;; xmm1: |4|5|6|7 pshufd xmm1,xmm1,00011011b ;;; xmm1: |7|6|5|4 cvtdq2ps xmm0,xmm0 cvtdq2ps xmm1,xmm1 movaps xmm2,xmmword ptr scale_const mulps xmm0,xmm2 mulps xmm1,xmm2 movaps xmmword ptr [tws + i * 20h],xmm0 movaps xmmword ptr [tws + i * 20h + 10h],xmm1 endm cvt_store macro   i, r, offs ;;; OUT [eax . . .] = coeff. row cvtps2dq r,r packssdw r,r if offs EQ 0 ;;; low movlps xmmword ptr [eax + i * 10h],r else movhps xmmword ptr [eax + i * 10h + 08h],r endif endm idct_column macro offs ;;; IN tws −> float 8×8 block (esp + 4) ;;; IN eax −> dst (short 8×8 block) ;;; OUT [eax . . .] = short 8×8 block movaps xmm5,xmmword ptr [tws + 30h * 2 + offs] movaps xmm6,xmmword ptr [tws + 50h * 2 + offs] movaps xmm7,xmm6 addps xmm6,xmm5 subps xmm7,xmm5 movaps xmm4,xmmword ptr [tws + 10h * 2 + offs] movaps xmm3,xmmword ptr [tws + 70h * 2 + offs] movaps xmm5,xmm4 addps xmm4,xmm3 subps xmm5,xmm3 movaps xmm3,xmm4 addps xmm4,xmm6 subps xmm3,xmm6 mulps xmm3,xmmword ptr Cp1_414f movaps xmm6,xmm7 addps xmm6,xmm5 mulps xmm6,xmmword ptr Cp1_847f mulps xmm7,xmmword ptr Cm2_613f ;;; ;;; ;;; addps xmm7,xmm6 mulps xmm5,xmmword ptr Cp1_082f subps xmm5,xmm6 subps xmm7,xmm4 subps xmm3,xmm7 addps xmm5,xmm3 movaps xmmword ptr ssetmp_store,xmm4 movaps xmm0,xmmword ptr [tws + 00h * 2 + offs] movaps xmm2,xmmword ptr [tws + 40h * 2 + offs] movaps xmm6,xmm0 addps xmm0,xmm2 subps xmm6,xmm2 movaps xmm1,xmmword ptr [tws + 20h * 2 + offs] movaps xmm2,xmmword ptr [tws + 60h * 2 + offs] movaps xmm4,xmm1 addps xmm1,xmm2 subps xmm4,xmm2 mulps xmm4,xmmword ptr Cp1_414f subps xmm4,xmm1 movaps xmm2,xmm0 addps xmm0,xmm1 subps xmm2,xmm1 movaps xmm1,xmm0 addps xmm0,xmmword ptr ssetmp_store subps xmm1,xmmword ptr ssetmp_store cvt_store 0, xmm0, offs cvt_store 7, xmm1, offs movaps xmm1,xmm2 addps xmm2,xmm5 subps xmm1,xmm5 cvt_store 4, xmm2, offs cvt_store 3, xmm1, offs movaps xmm5,xmm6 addps xmm6,xmm4 subps xmm5,xmm4 movaps xmm4,xmm6 addps xmm6,xmm7 subps xmm4,xmm7 cvt_store 1, xmm6, offs cvt_store 6, xmm4, offs movaps xmm7,xmm5 addps xmm5,xmm3 subps xmm7,xmm3 cvt_store 2, xmm5, offs cvt_store 5, xmm7, offs endm ;;; 8×8 iDCT; integer row stage; AAN float column stage _idct8×8ssfs   proc   near ;;; IN/OUT [esp + 4] −> short 8×8 block mov eax,esp sub esp,0110h ;;; space for float 8×8 block and esp, 0fffffff0h push eax mov eax, [eax + 4] ;;; eax −> short IN/OUT 8×8 block ;;; esp + 4 −> float intermediate 8×8 block idct_row2 0, wcorr0w idct_row2 2, wcorr2w idct_row2 4, wcorr4w idct_row2 6, wcorr6w if 0 idct_row 0, wcorr0w idct_row 1, wcorr1w idct_row 2, wcorr2w idct_row 3, wcorr3w idct_row 4, wcorr4w idct_row 5, wcorr5w idct_row 6, wcorr6w idct_row 7, wcorr7w endif idct_column 00h idct_column 10h exit: mov esp, [esp] ret _idct8×8ssfs endp _TEXT ends _DATA segment Cp1_082f dd 1.082392200, 1.082392200, 1.082392200, 1.082392200 Cp1_414f dd 1.414213562, 1.414213562, 1.414213562, 1.414213562 Cp1_847f dd 1.847759065, 1.847759065, 1.847759065, 1.847759065 Cm2_613f dd −2.613125930, −2.613125930, −2.613125930, −2.613125930 ;;; ;;; short-float data align    10h ;;; even 01 even 23 ;;; even tail 01 even tail 23 ;;; odd 01 odd 23 ;;; odd tail 01 odd tail 23 ;;; 2{circumflex over ( )}17 wcorr0w dw 4000h, 539Fh, 4000h, 22A3h, 4000h, 0DD5Eh, 4000h, 0AC62h dw 4000h, 22A3h, 0C001h, 0AC62h, 0C001h, 539Fh, 4000h, 0DD5Eh dw 58C5h, 4B42h, 4B42h, 0EE59h, 3249h, 0A73Ch, 11A8h, 0CDB8h dw 3249h, 11A8h, 0A73Ch, 0CDB8h, 11A8h, 4B42h, 4B42h, 0A73Ch wcorr1w dw 58C5h, 73FCh, 58C5h, 300Bh, 58C5h, 0CFF6h, 58C5h, 08C05h dw 58C5h, 300Bh, 0A73Ch, 08C05h, 0A73Ch, 73FCh, 58C5h, 0CFF6h dw 7B21h, 6862h, 6862h, 0E783h, 45BFh, 084E0h, 187Eh, 0BA42h dw 45BFh, 187Eh, 084E0h, 0BA42h, 187Eh, 6862h, 6862h, 084E0h wcorr2w dw 539Fh, 6D41h, 539Fh, 2D41h, 539Fh, 0D2C0h, 539Fh, 092C0h dw 539Fh, 2D41h, 0AC62h, 092C0h, 0AC62h, 6D41h, 539Fh, 0D2C0h dw 73FCh, 6254h, 6254h, 0E8EFh, 41B3h, 08C05h, 1712h, 0BE4Eh dw 41B3h, 1712h, 08C05h, 0BE4Eh, 1712h, 6254h, 6254h, 08C05h wcorr3w dw 4B42h, 6254h, 4B42h, 28BAh, 4B42h, 0D747h, 4B42h, 09DADh dw 4B42h, 28BAh, 0B4BFh, 09DADh, 0B4BFh, 6254h, 4B42h, 0D747h dw 6862h, 587Eh, 587Eh, 0EB3Eh, 3B21h, 0979Fh, 14C3h, 0C4E0h dw 3B21h, 14C3h, 0979Fh, 0C4E0h, 14C3h, 587Eh, 587Eh, 0979Fh wcorr4w dw 4000h, 539Fh, 4000h, 22A3h, 4000h, 0DD5Eh, 4000h, 0AC62h dw 4000h, 22A3h, 0C001h, 0AC62h, 0C001h, 539Fh, 4000h, 0DD5Eh dw 58C5h, 4B42h, 4B42h, 0EE59h, 3249h, 0A73Ch, 11A8h, 0CDB8h dw 3249h, 11A8h, 0A73Ch, 0CDB8h, 11A8h, 4B42h, 4B42h, 0A73Ch wcorr5w dw 3249h, 41B3h, 3249h, 1B37h, 3249h, 0E4CAh, 3249h, 0BE4Eh dw 3249h, 1B37h, 0CDB8h, 0BE4Eh, 0CDB8h, 41B3h, 3249h, 0E4CAh dw 45BFh, 3B21h, 3B21h, 0F221h, 2782h, 0BA42h, 0DE0h, 0D87Fh dw 2782h, 0DE0h, 0BA42h, 0D87Fh, 0DE0h, 3B21h, 3B21h, 0BA42h wcorr6w dw 22A3h, 2D41h, 22A3h, 12BFh, 22A3h, 0ED42h, 22A3h, 0D2C0h dw 22A3h, 12BFh, 0DD5Eh, 0D2C0h, 0DD5Eh, 2D41h, 22A3h, 0ED42h dw 300Bh, 28BAh, 28BAh, 0F673h, 1B37h, 0CFF6h, 098Eh, 0E4CAh dw 1B37h, 098Eh, 0CFF6h, 0E4CAh, 098Eh, 28BAh, 28BAh, 0CFF6h wcorr7w dw 11A8h, 1712h, 11A8h, 098Eh, 11A8h, 0F673h, 11A8h, 0E8EFh dw 11A8h, 098Eh, 0EE59h, 0E8EFh, 0EE59h, 1712h, 11A8h, 0F673h dw 187Eh, 14C3h, 14C3h, 0FB22h, 0DE0h, 0E783h, 04DFh, 0F221h dw 0DE0h, 04DFh, 0E783h, 0F221h, 04DFh, 14C3h, 14C3h, 0E783h ;;; 1 / 2{circumflex over ( )}17 scale_const dd 37000000h, 37000000h, 37000000h, 37000000h _DATA ends end

APPENDIX B Below are the results of an inverse DCT IEEE 1180–1990 compliance test. The test was performed for 10,000 iterations. Each element of the tables in this section corresponds to one output DCT coefficient of an 8×8 coefficient block. 1. Single-precision floating-point 8×8 inverse DCT (a) The input values are in the range of [−255; 255] Peak absolute values of errors: 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Worst peak error = 1 (meets spec limit 1) Mean square errors:  0.0000  0.0002  0.0000  0.0000  0.0000  0.0000  0.0000  0.0000   0.0000  0.0001  0.0000  0.0000  0.0000  0.0000  0.0000  0.0000   0.0000  0.0000  0.0000  0.0000  0.0000  0.0000  0.0000  0.0000   0.0000  0.0000  0.0000  0.0000  0.0001  0.0000  0.0000  0.0000   0.0001  0.0000  0.0000  0.0000  0.0000  0.0001  0.0000  0.0000   0.0000  0.0000  0.0000  0.0000  0.0000  0.0000  0.0001  0.0000   0.0000  0.0000  0.0000  0.0001  0.0000  0.0000  0.0000  0.0000   0.0000  0.0000  0.0000  0.0000  0.0000  0.0000  0.0000  0.0000  Worst pmse = 0.000200 (meets spec limit 0.06) Overall mse = 0.000013 (meets spec limit 0.02) (b) The input values are in the range of [−5; 5] Peak absolute values of errors: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Worst peak error = 0 (meets spec limit 1) Mean square errors:  0.0000  0.0000  0.0000  0.0000  0.0000  0.0000  0.0000  0.0000   0.0000  0.0000  0.0000  0.0000  0.0000  0.0000  0.0000  0.0000   0.0000  0.0000  0.0000  0.0000  0.0000  0.0000  0.0000  0.0000   0.0000  0.0000  0.0000  0.0000  0.0000  0.0000  0.0000  0.0000   0.0000  0.0000  0.0000  0.0000  0.0000  0.0000  0.0000  0.0000   0.0000  0.0000  0.0000  0.0000  0.0000  0.0000  0.0000  0.0000   0.0000  0.0000  0.0000  0.0001  0.0000  0.0000  0.0000  0.0000   0.0000  0.0000  0.0000  0.0000  0.0000  0.0000  0.0000  0.0000  Worst pmse = 0.000000 (meets spec limit 0.06) Overall mse = 0.000000 (meets spec limit 0.02) 2. Mixed integer/single-precision floating-point 8×8 inverse DCT (a) The input values are in the range of [−255; 255] Peak absolute values of errors: 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 Worst peak error = 1 (meets spec limit 1) Mean square errors:  0.0006  0.0039  0.0018  0.0030  0.0027  0.0027  0.0039  0.0013   0.0016  0.0071  0.0038  0.0035  0.0047  0.0061  0.0068  0.0025   0.0027  0.0073  0.0060  0.0050  0.0057  0.0069  0.0080  0.0019   0.0022  0.0069  0.0077  0.0062  0.0074  0.0069  0.0071  0.0031   0.0023  0.0086  0.0071  0.0072  0.0067  0.0071  0.0082  0.0028   0.0023  0.0080  0.0062  0.0071  0.0058  0.0058  0.0087  0.0032   0.0026  0.0060  0.0058  0.0044  0.0064  0.0043  0.0057  0.0025   0.0013  0.0030  0.0030  0.0041  0.0031  0.0020  0.0029  0.0010  Worst pmse = 0.008700 (meets spec limit 0.06) Overall mse = 0.004722 (meets spec limit 0.02) (b) The input values are in the range of [−5; 5] Peak absolute values of errors: 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 Worst peak error = 1 (meets spec limit 1) Mean square errors:  0.0001  0.0001  0.0001  0.0001  0.0002  0.0000  0.0000  0.0000   0.0000  0.0000  0.0001  0.0000  0.0000  0.0002  0.0001  0.0000   0.0000  0.0000  0.0002  0.0002  0.0003  0.0002  0.0004  0.0001   0.0001  0.0002  0.0001  0.0000  0.0001  0.0001  0.0002  0.0000   0.0001  0.0003  0.0002  0.0001  0.0001  0.0002  0.0001  0.0001   0.0000  0.0001  0.0003  0.0000  0.0002  0.0001  0.0002  0.0002   0.0002  0.0001  0.0001  0.0000  0.0001  0.0003  0.0001  0.0001   0.0000  0.0000  0.0002  0.0000  0.0000  0.0002  0.0000  0.0001  Worst pmse = 0.000400 (meets spec limit 0.06) Overall mse = 0.000109 (meets spec limit 0.02) 3. Integer 8×8 inverse DCT (a) The input values are in the range of [−255; 255] Peak absolute values of errors: 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 Worst peak error = 1 (meets spec limit 1) Mean square errors:  0.0126  0.0118  0.0130  0.0126  0.0110  0.0125  0.0127  0.0119   0.0154  0.0161  0.0156  0.0159  0.0153  0.0167  0.0168  0.0173   0.0172  0.0151  0.0160  0.0134  0.0154  0.0167  0.0187  0.0137   0.0135  0.0126  0.0125  0.0145  0.0132  0.0136  0.0120  0.0116   0.0127  0.0133  0.0140  0.0119  0.0120  0.0119  0.0118  0.0139   0.0157  0.0159  0.0154  0.0157  0.0163  0.0143  0.0175  0.0160   0.0158  0.0147  0.0183  0.0172  0.0152  0.0152  0.0146  0.0150   0.0133  0.0133  0.0119  0.0128  0.0134  0.0146  0.0132  0.0129  Worst pmse = 0.018700 (meets spec limit 0.06) Overall mse = 0.014322 (meets spec limit 0.02) (b) The input values are in the range of [−5; 5] Peak absolute values of errors: 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 Worst peak error = 1 (meets spec limit 1) Mean square errors:  0.0132  0.0147  0.0132  0.0125  0.0121  0.0109  0.0121  0.0116   0.0145  0.0176  0.0166  0.0177  0.0159  0.0147  0.0157  0.0161   0.0160  0.0181  0.0185  0.0144  0.0159  0.0158  0.0170  0.0145   0.0128  0.0110  0.0136  0.0140  0.0128  0.0127  0.0119  0.0136   0.0122  0.0122  0.0134  0.0126  0.0113  0.0136  0.0120  0.0115   0.0175  0.0156  0.0157  0.0142  0.0160  0.0156  0.0153  0.0148   0.0174  0.0138  0.0173  0.0159  0.0139  0.0160  0.0147  0.0163   0.0107  0.0125  0.0132  0.0136  0.0128  0.0137  0.0118  0.0141  Worst pmse = 0.018500 (meets spec limit 0.06) Overall mse = 0.014264 (meets spec limit 0.02)

APPENDIX C DCT functions, optimized for Pentium ®4 processor clocks Inverse Single-precision floating-point inverse DCT 560 Mixed integer/floating-point inverse DCT 416 Integer inverse DCT 306 Forward Single-precision floating-point forward DCT 540 Mixed integer/floating-point forward DCT 412 Integer forward DCT 272 

1. A computer-implemented method of performing two-dimensional (2) inverse or forward Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) on an N×M coefficient block, where N and M are natural numbers, comprising: applying, by executing at least one instruction in a computer system supporting Single Instruction Multiple Data (SIMD) operations, one-dimensional (1D) integer DCT to rows of the coefficient block; converting, by executing at least one instruction in the computer system supporting SIMD operations, result data from the 1D integer DCT into single precision floating point values; and applying, by executing at least one instruction in the computer system supporting SIMD operations, 1D single precision floating point DCT to columns of an N×M coefficient block resulting from converting the result data.
 2. The method of claim 1, wherein the 1D integer DCT applied to rows further comprises a N-point DCT operation implemented using fixed point integer computations.
 3. The method of claim 2, wherein a number of bits used to represent intermediate values of the fixed point integer computations and output values of the N-point DCT operation is at least twice as large as the number of bits representing input values of the N-point DCT.
 4. The method of claim 2, wherein the N-point DCT is implemented using SIMD instructions that support inter-operand dependencies.
 5. The method of claim 2, wherein converting result data further comprises applying a conversion operation to the output values of the N-point DCT to produce N single precision floating point coefficients.
 6. The method of claim 5, wherein the conversion operation is implemented using SIMD instructions and applied to several elements of the coefficient block simultaneously.
 7. The method of claim 1, wherein 1D single precision floating point DCT applied to columns further comprises a M-point DCT implemented using single precision floating point computations.
 8. The method of claim 7, wherein the single precision floating point DCT is implemented using SIMD instructions to apply the DCT operation to several columns simultaneously.
 9. An article comprising: a machine accessible medium having instructions, which, when executed in a processing system that supports Single Instruction Multiple Data (SIMD) operations, cause the processing system to perform a method of applying two-dimensional (2D) inverse or forward Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) to an N×M coefficient block, where N and M are natural numbers, by applying one-dimensional (1D) integer DCT to rows of the coefficient block; converting result data from the 1D integer DCT into single precision floating point values; and applying 1D single precision floating point DCT to columns of an N×M coefficient block resulting from converting the result data.
 10. The article of claim 9, wherein instructions for the 1D integer DCT applied to rows further comprise instructions for a N-point DCT operation implemented using fixed point integer computations.
 11. The article of claim 10, wherein a number of bits used to represent intermediate values of the fixed point integer computations and output values of the N-point DCT operation is at least twice as large as the number of bits representing input values of the N-point DCT.
 12. The article of claim 10, wherein the N-point DCT is implemented using instructions for SIMD operations that support inter-operand dependencies.
 13. The article of claim 10, wherein instructions for converting result data further comprise instructions for applying a conversion operation to the output values of the N-point DCT to produce N single precision floating point coefficients.
 14. The article of claim 13, wherein the conversion operation is implemented using SIMD instructions and applied to several elements of the coefficient block simultaneously.
 15. The article of claim 9, wherein instructions for applying the 1D single precision floating point DCT to columns further comprise instructions for a M-point DCT implemented using single precision floating point computations.
 16. The article of claim 15, wherein the single precision floating point DCT is implemented using SIMD instructions to apply the DCT operation to several columns simultaneously. 